“What did it feel like the first time?”
Qin Wan felt as though her whole body was about to fall apart.
……
“Shengting Hotel, room 3225. Find me a clean male escort and send him over, quick… I’ll explain later.”
After managing those words between uneven breaths, Qin Wan promptly hung up.
Her shapely body slid slowly down the wall, even as the heat inside her kept rising beyond her control.
Five minutes later.
The sound of a key card being swiped came from outside the hotel room door.
Gu Yingchuan stood outside, his handsome brows drawing together after he’d tried several times to unlock it. He glanced up at the room number. It was definitely 3225, just as his assistant, Cao Jun, had said.
Irritated, he pulled his phone from his trouser pocket.
He was about to call Cao Jun when the person inside suddenly flung the door open.
Qin Wan was already burning up, barely able to stand it.
She smelled faintly of alcohol. Through half-lidded eyes, she looked the man over in the light from the hallway—
Handsome, tall, and with a rather impressive air about him.
He must be the male escort her best friend, Shi Xia, had found for her.
That was fast. Shi Xia really was reliable.
Qin Wan didn’t give him time to react. She grabbed his tie and yanked him into the room.
Her long legs, still in high heels, kicked the door shut.
Her soft body pressed against his firm chest, and the heat inside her seemed to ease a little at once.
Then Qin Wan lifted her head impatiently and kissed his thin lips.
The man and woman kissed passionately, entangled in each other’s arms.
The air in the room seemed to reach a fever pitch.
Clothes lay scattered in a trail from the doorway to the rug beside the bed.
Qin Wan was all fire and passion. Even Gu Yingchuan, usually so cool and composed, could barely keep up with her.
Only after they had made love twice did the heat inside Qin Wan finally subside.
The man got out of bed and dressed.
Qin Wan lay against the pillow, panting lightly. Her starry eyes were half-closed as she said weakly, “You agreed on the price with Shi Xia, right? Have her transfer it to you first. I’ll pay her back later.”
Her whole body ached as if it were falling apart.
And since it was her first time, she felt especially weak.
She simply didn’t have the strength to get up and pay him. Since Shi Xia had been the one to play pimp, Qin Wan figured her friend could front the money.
At her words, Gu Yingchuan’s long fingers paused as he buttoned his shirt.
A vein throbbed at his temple. He turned, his deep eyes cool as he looked at her on the bed. “Qin Wan, what did you just say?”
He had assumed that, even though Qin Wan had been drunk, she’d recognized him before they slept together.
He hadn’t expected her to have ordered an escort—
And mistaken him for someone else?
The more Gu Yingchuan thought about it, the darker his expression grew.
But all she gave him in reply was a long silence.
He walked over to the side of the bed where Qin Wan was lying and bent down to look at her. Only then did he realize that she had already fallen into a deep, hazy sleep.
In the end, he couldn’t bring himself to wake her.
Gu Yingchuan rubbed his aching temples and strode toward the bathroom.
All night long, Qin Wan slept like the dead.
It wasn’t until the morning light fell across her face that she finally opened her eyes.
She instinctively raised a hand to shield herself from the glare, but the moment she lifted her arm, the soreness all over her body jolted her fully awake—
Last night, she had come with her superior, Director Zhang, to salvage a business deal. When the negotiations were nearly finished, the three of them had raised their glasses to wish the deal success.
After they drank, Director Zhang suddenly made an excuse and left first.
She stayed in the room, waiting for the other party to stamp and sign the contract. But as she waited, the unnatural heat in her body and the man’s groping hands creeping over her finally made her realize that she was the main course in last night’s deal!
She was short on money, and she wanted a promotion badly.
But she wasn’t so shameless that she’d make that kind of sacrifice for the company!
She vaguely remembered escaping the room with the last of her reason, getting another room, and calling her best friend Shi Xia, who knew her way around men, to arrange a clean male escort…
One intimate scene after another from last night came rushing back to her.
She had to admit, the man had been pretty good at it. Still, who wouldn’t feel at least a little uneasy about losing their virginity to a stranger?
As she thought about it, her fingers tightened around the blanket until they turned white.
Irritated, she rolled over—and nearly jumped out of her skin when she found a handsome face right beside her!
Qin Wan screamed and, almost on instinct, shot a leg out from beneath the thin blanket and kicked the man hard.
The sleeping man was caught completely off guard.
The kick sent him tumbling awkwardly to the floor.
Gu Yingchuan was terribly bad-tempered when woken up. After being kicked out of bed, his expression turned thunderous.
“Qin Wan, what the hell is wrong with you?”
Gu Yingchuan braced himself against the edge of the bed and stood, looking down at her.
Fortunately, he’d wrapped a bath towel around his lower body in the middle of the night before going to sleep. If he’d been kicked out of bed completely naked, even the most easygoing man would have lost his temper.
Qin Wan pulled the blanket tightly around herself before speaking. “Why are you still in my bed? Didn’t I tell you last night to settle the bill with Shi Xia? Given how close we are, there’s no way she wouldn’t pay you!”
She still remembered what had happened before she passed out last night.
And she was sure Shi Xia would cover the cost.
So why had he stayed here and slept all night? Was he after something else?
As she fretted, Qin Wan warily bundled herself up and inched toward the edge of the bed. Putting on a bold front, she said, “You’re not trying to jack up the price now, are you? You may be good at it, but—”
“Qin Wan!”
When he saw that she was getting more and more outrageous, Gu Yingchuan finally couldn’t take it anymore and cut her off.
There was something about the man’s presence that threw her off.
Qin Wan had to admit she was intimidated for a few seconds.
But once she came to her senses, she remembered that she was the one paying. Why should she be intimidated by the person taking her money?
That made no sense!
So she gathered her courage and looked up again.
But somehow, the man had climbed back onto the bed. He knelt on it, supporting himself with his hands, and brought his impossibly handsome face close to hers.
“What are you trying to do?”
Qin Wan asked, trying to shrink away.
But he was faster. He wrapped an arm around her waist through the blanket, then slowly lowered his handsome face until his thin lips were almost touching hers. “Qin Wan, you don’t remember me?”
Gu Yingchuan asked her seriously.
His eyes, black as ink, stayed fixed on her face. There wasn’t the slightest hint that he was joking.
Taken aback by his sudden seriousness, Qin Wan began to wonder… was she supposed to know him?
After all, aside from her male colleagues at work, she never interacted with other men.
Her best friend Shi Xia even teased her for being dull and one-track-minded, caring only about making money. At twenty-six, she still hadn’t tasted the forbidden fruit.
So she really shouldn’t know him.
“Have you mistaken me for someone else? I don’t usually deal with people in your line of work, so…”
Qin Wan began hesitantly.
But before she could finish, she felt a faint sting at her waist.
Qin Wan frowned.
Then Gu Yingchuan said, “Qin Wan, what makes you so sure I’m the man Shi Xia sent over for you?”